There had been boasting. And hitchhiking. And maybe a flannel shirt. And lousy cell phone reception. That’s what the cops put in the report.

They found themselves in an odd neighborhood with odd people eating odd food. Lock the doors! she said. The car ran out of gas and they died

They watch the storm roll in, the eddies of black clouds. Lightning strikes a building nearby. That is the opposite of how I felt, she says.

He announced his humility by undressing in the park. Children threw sharp objects at him. Embrace fashion, he said. Then he shaved his chest

She kissed him and said, Let’s go. He pulled her back and said, If you really love me you won’t make me go shopping. And she said, Let’s go.

He tries to describe the color of the sunset to her but he can’t find the proper words. It’s beyond me, he tells her. But she’s already gone